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I'd be more worried about Siberian clathrates than I would be about a methane explosion in the GOM.

why, are they a million times normal too?

thanks for easing my concerns, :(

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jul 13th, 2010 at 12:16:47 PM EST
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What is "a million times normal" is the observed concentration of methane dissolved in water in the gulf in some samples taken by a Texas A&M oceanographer. That tells you very little about the amount of methane that could potentially be released from the Gulf of Mexico.

TBG implies that the amount of methane trapped in the Siberian permafrost easily exceeds that in the Gulf of Mexico, and I think I agree (based on no data :-) with his impression.

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 13th, 2010 at 12:37:07 PM EST
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